Transforming Ferrymead Park, one stitch at a time!

It's early morning starts for Mexteds' hybrid turf team who  are on site at Ferrymead Park, Christchurch for the next few weeks with our electric SISGrass stitching machine. We are creating a hybrid surface - 95% natural turf and 5% monofilament fibres. This technology, used on pitches, playing fields and golf courses around the world, improves turf durability and water penetration, speeding up turf recovery and improving playing conditions, as well as giving savings in maintenance costs.

Christchurch City Council's senior project manager, Richard Gibbs, says "Hybrid stitching is being implemented as part of our recently approved Sports Field Network Plan. This Plan includes an objective to use hybrid turf technology to maximise the use, resilience and longevity of new and existing natural turf sports fields to allow sport development and performance at a higher community level."